Item Drop From List Of Six Possible Items Question. C#

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1

Hello :slight_smile:

I’ve been pouring over the docs and googling for about two hours now and still can’t figure this one out.

Basically I have a crate, I have it to where it can be destroyed and then it drops an item. Now I can’t seem to figure out the best method of randomizing the drop. I was reading over Random.Range in the Unity Docs and am curious if this would be a good way to randomly instantiate an item from a list. Also what would be the best method of creating said list. I have a personal preference of using…

public GameObject[] Items;

So I can just visually drag and drop the prefabs for the items into the slots but am open to other ways of doing it.

If my option is viable could I get Random.Range to select one of the prefabs in the list then instantiate it on the crates demise?

Thank you for the help

2

New to scripting yes, I’ve been working with a couple different projects with other groups of people doing just modeling and level design which is why I am more comfortable with visual application rather than hard coding it all. Basically I’m just trying to grasp scripting so I can start doing some small projects on my own for learning reasons and just having fun :smiley:

So here is my current idea as far as the scripting goes for the random drop out of the crate using my GameObject array and the Random.Range

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CrateScript : MonoBehaviour {

	public GameObject[] Items;
	public int CrateHealth = 10;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	
	}

	void ApplyDamage (int TheDamage) 
	{
		CrateHealth -= TheDamage;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update ()
		{
			if(CrateHealth <= 0)
			{
				Death();
			}
		}

	void Death()
	{
		Destroy(gameObject);
		Instantiate(Items[Random.Range(0, Items.Length)], transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
	}
}

But for some reason no items are spawning /: